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title: "Customer Stories"
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  "How teams run production API and MCP traffic on Zuplo — what each team moved,
  how long it took, and what it saved. See implementation details and next
  steps."
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# Teams that run production traffic on Zuplo

> Regulated financial services, global retail, blockchain infrastructure, and a
> billion end users. Some moved off Apigee, Kong, or Azure API Management; one
> shipped a production MCP server in under a day. What each team moved, how long
> it took, and what it saved.

## Customer stories

- **[Blockdaemon](/customers/blockdaemon)** — Replaced Apigee. **70% lower cost
  · 90% fewer nodes.** Blockdaemon switched mission-critical systems off Apigee
  in just over two months, cutting gateway costs 70% and reducing their hardware
  footprint by 90%.
- **[AccuWeather](/customers/accuweather)** — Replaced Apigee. **1B+ end users ·
  billions of monthly API calls.** AccuWeather migrated from Google Apigee to
  Zuplo on Akamai Cloud, gaining a modern developer portal, programmable
  caching, and dramatic cost savings.
- **[Finsolutia](/customers/finsolutia)** — **<24 hours · 0 code changes.**
  Finsolutia, a regulated fintech, exposed their REST APIs as MCP tools with
  zero code changes — from nothing to a deployed MCP server in under 24 hours.
- **[Spot AI](/customers/spotai)** — Replaced Apigee. **80% cost savings.** Spot
  AI switched from Apigee to Zuplo, cutting API management costs 80% and going
  from weeks to hours on API changes.
- **[SmarterX](/customers/smarterx)** — Replaced Apigee. **75% cost reduction ·
  30 days to production.** SmarterX cut API management costs by 75%, reached
  production in 30 days, and tripled developer engagement after leaving Apigee.
- **[Copilot Travel](/customers/copilot-travel)** — Replaced Kong. **>50% faster
  implementation.** Copilot Travel couldn't get Kong to work. They moved to
  Zuplo and cut implementation time by more than half — days instead of months.
- **[iTicket](/customers/iticket)** — Replaced Azure API Management. **20s
  deployments.** iTicket transitioned from Azure API Management to Zuplo,
  gaining 20-second deployments, greater flexibility, and a stronger market
  position.
- **[Yext (Hearsay)](/customers/yext)** — **60M+ monthly requests.** Hearsay, a
  Yext company, scaled to 60M+ monthly requests and enhanced API security while
  maintaining parity with their existing architecture.
- **[Atlas Reality](/customers/atlas-reality)** — **300k+ daily users.** Atlas
  Reality chose Zuplo to keep their backend secure and scalable while serving
  300k+ daily users, with a one-day setup.
- **[Imburse (Duck Creek)](/customers/duck-creek)** — Imburse Payments (a Duck
  Creek company) moved off in-house Kubernetes routing that lacked throttling
  and security transparency. They evaluated Azure API Management and chose Zuplo
  instead, despite being an Azure shop.
- **[Greenlite](/customers/greenlite)** — Greenlite streamlined their API
  management, enabling secure, scalable, and efficient global integrations.
- **[Graylark](/customers/graylark)** — Learn how Graylark rebuilt their
  developer experience, reducing onboarding time and integrating API
  monetization with Zuplo.
- **[Rewiring America](/customers/rewiring-america)** — Tom Carden, Head of
  Engineering at Rewiring America, talks about how Zuplo has helped them save
  weeks shipping their API with confidence.
- **[Common Paper](/customers/common-paper)** — Common Paper used Zuplo's
  turnkey solution to launch a secure public API quickly, freeing their team to
  focus on core development.
- **[Elevate](/customers/elevate)** — Learn how cutting-edge AI startup Elevate
  uses Zuplo to accelerate their API program.
- **[Lake Michigan Credit Union](/customers/lake-michigan-credit-union)** —
  **$14B+ in assets · 500k+ members.** LMCU is the 13th largest credit union in the U.S., with over $14
  billion in assets and more than 500,000 members.
- **[Mews](/customers/mews)** — **5,000+ properties · 85+ countries.** Mews is
  the cloud-native hospitality platform powering more than 5,000 properties
  across 85+ countries.
- **[Zumiez](/customers/zumiez)** — **730+ stores worldwide.** Zumiez is a
  NASDAQ-listed action sports retailer operating more than 730 stores across
  North America, Europe, and Australia.

## Next steps

- Talk to a Solutions Architect about your move: `/schedule-call`
- Start a free account: `https://portal.zuplo.com/signup`